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Updated 9/25/2023

Third Space Performance Lab

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Third Space Performance Lab was started in Los Angeles in 2017 by Marc Gomes and Shanti Pillai as a platform for exploring collaborative, multi-disciplinary performance. We believe in the overwhelming importance of humor and beauty. We provoke questions of gender, race, and hybridity by juxtaposing unexpected points of cultural reference. We blur the boundaries between performance and audience and we play with the distinctions between actor and character. Our bodies are the central focus of what we do and speak in multiple theatrical languages as we draw from Brecht, Grotowski, hatha yoga, classical Indian dance, and Stanislavski. We interweave our art making practice with teaching and research about contemporary cultural politics and theatrical form. Embodying theoretical discourse is an integral part of our process. We are informed by scholarship and in turn, our performances seek both to delight and to inspire reflection.

Find Me

Shanti Pillai (She)
Job Title: Co-Founder
Address:
64 Meacham Street
Williamstown, MA 01267

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2017

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2017

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Theater - Devised / Artist-Led

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 3

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders

Languages Available:

  • English
  • Spanish

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • PhD Performance Studies, NYU
  • MFA Acting Pedagogy, Cal State Long Beach
  • Anusara Elements Yoga Teacher

Fee range:

Workshops @ $250-300 per hour.

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Theater

Certifications and Training:

  • PhD Performance Studies, NYU
  • MFA Acting Pedagogy, Cal State Long Beach
  • Anusara Elements Yoga Teacher

Fee range:

Workshops @ $250-300 per hour.

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Minimum space: Depth: 15 feet; Width: 25 feet
  • Local Stage Manager who will act as the liaison between the Company’s Sound Designer and Production Manager, and the Presenter’s crew.
  • +1 Crew for Load-In/ Focus (if needed at venue)/ Strike
  • Presenter must provide ground plan showing the layout of the stage, backstage, loading area and seating. If lecture hall, photos must be provided.
  • 1 projection screen
  • 1 lectern/podium
  • 2 dining room style chairs and 1 small round table
  • 2 stools or theatrical blocks
  • 1 large whiteboard
  • Secure location to store props brought on site by the Company.
  • Access to dressing room/green room with private bathroom
  • Wardrobe support for ironing/steaming costumes
  • Minimum 2-channel loudspeaker system including audience-facing left and right units adjacent to the playing space
  • Minimum 8-channel audio console (digital preferred)
  • Playback Mac computer with the following minimum specifications: 2012 or later, 16GB+ RAM, SSD, QLab 4 with audio license installed
  • Playback Mac administrator user account credentials
  • Audio interface with minimum 4in/4out (or Dante Virtual Soundcard, preferred)
  • 2 Shure SM58 mics on straight stands, patched to console inputs
  • 1 lavalier mic (DPA 4060 or similar) with lapel clip and wireless bodypack transmitter/receiver (Shure ULX or similar), patched to console input
  • All sound equipment powered by circuit(s) isolated from lighting equipment
  • At least one technician qualified and able to make adjustments to the repertory sound system in communication with the Sound Designer and/or Production Manager
  • A Sound Operator capable of operating QLab as well as mixing on and programming the sound console
  • At least one person in the lighting department who speaks English and can communicate with Production Manager regarding any notes or adjustments to the repertory plot, as well as program the desired lighting for the show
  • A light board operator who is thoroughly familiar with and proficient at programming and operating the Venue’s lighting console. Preferably this person should speak English proficiently enough to communicate efficiently with Lighting Designer
  • (1) personnel lift or ladder tall enough to reach all lights at trim height.
  • Necessary instruments, color, and accessories as indicated on Company’s final lighting plot
  • (1) ETC Eos/Ion/Element computerized lighting console. Company show files will be provided in ETC/EOS Family format. If the lighting console provided cannot read these file formats the Presenter must manually enter cues in advance of arrival.

Accessibility Accommodations Needed:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Fee Range:

Fee negotiable depending upon whether the presenter's venue is a theatre, a gallery space, or a university lecture hall.

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

3

Maximum Number of Performers:

3